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On Sociology-extensively revised, updated, and enlarged for this
second edition-addresses the current state of the discipline.
Looking to unify increasingly disparate areas of theory and
research, John Goldthorpe presents a new mainstream for sociology,
combining the demonstrated strengths of large-scale quantitative
research and the explanatory power of social action theory. The
author's wide-ranging mastery, extending over comparative
macro-sociology, applications of rational action theory, and
philosophical and theoretical debates on causality, to key
questions in educational attainment and class analysis and to the
history of statistics in the social sciences, make this an
essential book for any sociologist. The collection of closely
interlinked essays is presented in two volumes. Volume One begins
with a series of critical essays that focus on methodological
problems in certain styles of sociological work. The underlying
theme is the need for recognition of a common "logic of inference"
that must underpin qualitative and quantitative work alike. Volume
Two illustrates and applies a new mainstream program, addressing
various topics in social stratification to highlight different
aspects of the integration of research and theory. Volume Two ends
with two retrospective essays that place the concerns of On
Sociology in the context of the history of the discipline in both
the United States and Europe.
On Sociology - extensively revised, updated, and enlarged for this
second edition - addresses the current state of the discipline.
Looking to unify increasingly disparate areas of theory and
research, John Goldthorpe presents a new mainstream for sociology,
combining the demonstrated strengths of large-scale quantitative
research and the explanatory power of social action theory. The
author's wide-ranging mastery, extending over comparative
macro-sociology, applications of rational action theory, and
philosophical and theoretical debates on causality, to key
questions in educational attainment and class analysis and to the
history of statistics in the social sciences, make this an
essential book for any sociologist. The collection of closely
interlinked essays is presented in two volumes. Volume One begins
with a series of critical essays that focus on methodological
problems in certain styles of sociological work. The underlying
theme is the need for recognition of a common logic of inference
that must underpin qualitative and quantitative work alike. various
topics in social stratification to highlight different aspects of
the integration of research and theory. Volume Two ends with two
retrospective essays that place the concerns of On Sociology in the
context of the history of the discipline in both the United States
and Europe.
On Sociology - extensively revised, updated, and enlarged for this
second edition - addresses the current state of the discipline.
Looking to unify increasingly disparate areas of theory and
research, John Goldthorpe presents a new mainstream for sociology,
combining the demonstrated strengths of large-scale quantitative
research and the explanatory power of social action theory. The
author's wide-ranging mastery, extending over comparative
macro-sociology, applications of rational action theory, and
philosophical and theoretical debates on causality, to key
questions in educational attainment and class analysis and to the
history of statistics in the social sciences, make this an
essential book for any sociologist. The collection of closely
interlinked essays is presented in two volumes. Volume One begins
with a series of critical essays that focus on methodological
problems in certain styles of sociological work. The underlying
theme is the need for recognition of a common logic of inference
that must underpin qualitative and quantitative work alike. various
topics in social stratification to highlight different aspects of
the integration of research and theory. Volume Two ends with two
retrospective essays that place the concerns of On Sociology in the
context of the history of the discipline in both the United States
and Europe.
On Sociology-extensively revised, updated, and enlarged for this
second edition-addresses the current state of the discipline.
Looking to unify increasingly disparate areas of theory and
research, John Goldthorpe presents a new mainstream for sociology,
combining the demonstrated strengths of large-scale quantitative
research and the explanatory power of social action theory. The
author's wide-ranging mastery, extending over comparative
macro-sociology, applications of rational action theory, and
philosophical and theoretical debates on causality, to key
questions in educational attainment and class analysis and to the
history of statistics in the social sciences, make this an
essential book for any sociologist. The collection of closely
interlinked essays is presented in two volumes. Volume One begins
with a series of critical essays that focus on methodological
problems in certain styles of sociological work. The underlying
theme is the need for recognition of a common "logic of inference"
that must underpin qualitative and quantitative work alike. Volume
Two illustrates and applies a new mainstream program, addressing
various topics in social stratification to highlight different
aspects of the integration of research and theory. Volume Two ends
with two retrospective essays that place the concerns of On
Sociology in the context of the history of the discipline in both
the United States and Europe.
Sonst so unterschiedl iche Autoren wie Thomas S. Kuhn, Paul
Feyerabend, Robert K. Merton und Gerald Holton haben uns darauf
aufmerksam gemacht, dass in der Wissenschaftsgeschichte nicht
Tradition, auch nicht Kontinuitat und schon gar ni cht Fol geri
chti gkeit das Regi ment fuhren. Das Geschehen, schreibt Merton in
Auf den Schultern von Riesen, "ist stets auf dem Ab sprung, verwei
st naCliVorne, ruckwartSOcleraur-di e Sei te" und ni cht ohne Grund
nimmt in . . seiner Wissenschaftsgeschichte das Interesse an
Vorweg-, Wiederauf- und Ubernahmen, d. h. an Antizipation,
Tradition und Plagiat einen so breiten Raum ein. Die hier
vorgeschlagenen Einteilungskriterien von Innovation, Erneuerung und
Kontinuitat entsprechen weder genau den Merton'schen Kategorien,
noch stehen sie in einer direkten Beziehung zu den zeitlichen
Dimensionen von Zukunft, Gegenwart und Vergangenheit. Zur
Rechtfertigung unserer Einteilungskriterien mochten wir auch nicht
Mertons Metapher vom Zwergen bemuhen, der, auf den Schultern von
Riesen stehend, weiter sehen kann als der Riese. Denn dieses Bild
hat seine Tucken, erhebt sich doch die Frage, wie der Zwerg auf die
Schultern des Riesen gelangt oder was mit ihm passiert, wenn - wie
offenbar in der Geschichte der Wissenschaft oft geschehen - der
Riese ins Wanken gerat oder gar sturzt. Als wissenschaftlicher
Prozess lasst sich die Analyse sozialer Ungleichheit, wie sie sich
im gegenwartigen Forschungsstand widerspiegelt, am besten durch die
Gleichzeitigkeit und den Wechsel von Phasen der Kontinuitat,
Erneuerung und Innovation verstandlich machen. Um Wissenschaft
betreiben und verstehen zu konnen, sind alle drei Phasen
gleichermassen notwendig."
Building upon extensive research into modern British society, this
book traces out trends in social mobility and their relation to
educational inequalities, with surprising results. Contrary to what
is widely supposed, Bukodi and Goldthorpe's findings show there has
been no overall decline in social mobility - though downward
mobility is tending to rise and upward mobility to fall - and
Britain is not a distinctively low mobility society. However, the
inequalities of mobility chances among individuals, in relation to
their social origins, have not been reduced and remain in some
respects extreme. Exposing the widespread misconceptions that
prevail in political and policy circles, this book shows that
educational policy alone cannot break the link between inequality
of condition and inequality of opportunity. It will appeal to
students, researchers, policy makers, and anyone interested in the
issues surrounding social inequality, social mobility and
education.
John Goldthorpe is one of Britain's most eminent sociologists and a
strong advocate of quantitative sociology. In this concise and
accessible book, he provides a new rationale for recent
developments in sociology which focus on establishing and
explaining probabilistic regularities in human populations. Through
these developments, Goldthorpe shows how sociology has become more
securely placed within the 'probabilistic revolution' that has
occurred over the last century in the natural and social sciences
alike. The central arguments of the book are illustrated with
examples from different areas of sociology, ranging from social
stratification and the sociology of the family to the sociology of
revolutions. He concludes by considering the implications of these
arguments for the proper boundaries of sociology, for its relations
with other disciplines, and for its public role.
Goldthorpe reveals the genealogy of present-day sociological
science through studies of the key contributions made by seventeen
pioneers in the field, ranging from John Graunt and Edmond Halley
in the mid-seventeenth century to Otis Dudley Duncan, James Coleman
and Raymond Boudon in the late twentieth. Goldthorpe's biographies
of these figures and analyses of their work reveal clear lines of
intellectual descent, building towards the author's model of
sociology as the study of human populations across time and place,
previously outlined in his book Sociology as a Population Science
(Cambridge, 2015). The extent to which recent developments such as
computational sociology and analytical sociology are in
continuation with the efforts of these influential thinkers is also
critically examined. Pioneers of Sociological Science will appeal
to students and scholars of sociology and to anyone engaged in
social science research, from statisticians to social historians.
Goldthorpe reveals the genealogy of present-day sociological
science through studies of the key contributions made by seventeen
pioneers in the field, ranging from John Graunt and Edmond Halley
in the mid-seventeenth century to Otis Dudley Duncan, James Coleman
and Raymond Boudon in the late twentieth. Goldthorpe's biographies
of these figures and analyses of their work reveal clear lines of
intellectual descent, building towards the author's model of
sociology as the study of human populations across time and place,
previously outlined in his book Sociology as a Population Science
(Cambridge, 2015). The extent to which recent developments such as
computational sociology and analytical sociology are in
continuation with the efforts of these influential thinkers is also
critically examined. Pioneers of Sociological Science will appeal
to students and scholars of sociology and to anyone engaged in
social science research, from statisticians to social historians.
One of the world's leading sociologists presents for the first time his comprehensive view of the aims and tools of modern sociology. The book will provoke debate about cogent and controversial theories of the way we understand modern industrial society.
The second edition of this classic study, fully updated and
extended, now includes an analysis of recent trends in
intergenerational mobility, the class mobility of women, and views
of social mobility in modern Britain from a cross-national
perspective.
This final book in The Affluent Worker series was originally
published in 1969. It contains the findings and conclusions on the
issues the research was specifically designed to investigate - the
extent of working class embourgeoisment. This thesis is examined in
the several contexts of work, sociability, social aspirations and
imagery, and so on. At all these points it is called into question
empirically and conceptually. In this volume which brings the
project to an end, the authors also take up again the broad
questions of class and politics out of which the investigation
originally sprang.
This 1968 volume, the second of The Affluent Worker monographs,
reports on the voting and political attitudes of highly paid manual
workers. As in the first book, the affluent workers studied are
employed in Luton, a town which benefited faster and more
consistently than almost any other in Britain from the economic
progress of the 'fifties and early 'sixties. The sample was chosen
as a 'critical' case to test some widely accepted views on the
assimilation of the working classes into patterns of middle-class
social life. On the basis of material from interviews, the authors
give an account of the workers' political orientations, and this is
followed by an analysis of voting in relationship to income house
ownership, social origin and trade union membership. The main
findings - that, despite their affluence, the majority of these
workers remain staunch supporters of the Labour Party - runs
counter to contemporary beliefs about working-class
embourgeoisement.
The affluent workers studied in this book, originally published in
1968, were employees of three major industrial concerns sited in
Luton at the time. The three firms were selected as being amongst
Luton's best-paying employers and also on account of their advanced
personnel and labour relations policies. This choice enabled
comparisons to be made between workers engaged in very different
types of production system. On the basis of material from
interviews and other data, the authors examine in detail workers'
experience of their industrial jobs, their relations with
workmates, and the nature of their attachment both to the
organizations which employ them and to their trade unions. This
study forms part of a larger project which was aimed at testing
empirically the thesis, which was most prevalent 1968, that of the
progressive assimilation of manual workers and their families into
the pattern of middle class social life.
John Goldthorpe is one of Britain's most eminent sociologists and a
strong advocate of quantitative sociology. In this concise and
accessible book, he provides a new rationale for recent
developments in sociology which focus on establishing and
explaining probabilistic regularities in human populations. Through
these developments, Goldthorpe shows how sociology has become more
securely placed within the 'probabilistic revolution' that has
occurred over the last century in the natural and social sciences
alike. The central arguments of the book are illustrated with
examples from different areas of sociology, ranging from social
stratification and the sociology of the family to the sociology of
revolutions. He concludes by considering the implications of these
arguments for the proper boundaries of sociology, for its relations
with other disciplines, and for its public role.
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